Climate and Ag in the news
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If you’re interested in reading books about the weather, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center has put together a list of some excellent non-fiction books about past weather events at https://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/pubs/historicalAccounts.jsp. I’ve read quite a few of these, but there are still some I need to take a look at. If you know of another good one,…
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Grist.org published an article this week about Jill Pelto, an artist who is incorporating climate data into her watercolor paintings. It seems like a very unique way to communicate data using more than just numbers. You can read the article here.
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NASA’s Earth Observatory blog posted an interesting story yesterday about the impacts of South Africa’s current severe drought on maize farmers. Drought is often seen in this region when a strong El Niño occurs, so it was not unexpected, but is more severe than usual. Due to the dry conditions, farmers have not been able…
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SERCH announced in their newsletter today (see earlier post) that their next installment on the climate vulnerabilities of loblobby pines is now available at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-ii-precipitation/. The first part discussed the impacts of rising temperatures; this part describes the impacts of variable precipitation on the trees in the Southeast.
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The USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub published its latest newsletter today. The issue has a list of several upcoming webinars related to agriculture and climate as well as climate summaries for December and for 2015. You can read it by clicking here.
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One of the arguments that I hear from time to time is that discussions about a warming climate are relatively new and that in the 1970s and 1980s scientists were talking about global cooling, not warming (see https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm for some information about this). A friend of mine on Facebook posted this news clip on YouTube from…
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The US Department of Agriculture has just released a new report on the impacts of drought on forests and rangelands. It includes descriptions of the types of drought, impacts on water supplies and vegetation, and includes information on how to deal with the impacts effectively. You can find it at https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/DROUGHT_book-web-1-11-16.pdf.